Cultural Mythology Analysisof Media texts in the Classroom at the Student Audience

• Main Author: Alexander Fedorov
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Academic Publishing House Researcher 2015-05-01
• Series: Evropejskij Issledovatelʹ
• Subjects: cultural mythology analysis; media; media texts; media education; media literacy; media competence; students
• Online Access: http://www.erjournal.ru/journals_n/1433332059.pdf

The author of this article presents the cultural mythology analysis of media texts: identification and analysis of mythologizing (including in the framework of the so-called folk sources - fairy tales, urban legends, etc.) plot, those types of characters, etc. in media texts. In particular, the audience (for example, students) offered by critical analysis to answer the question why so many entertainment media texts so popular with a mass audience? The author thinks that the media texts relating to the mass / popular culture, have success with the audience is not due to the fact that they supposedly only target people with low aesthetic taste, subject to psychological pressure, easy to believing the lie, etc., but because their authors respect and learning needs of the audience, including - information, compensatory, hedonistic, recreational, moral, aesthetic, etc.